How The NBA’s Best Coach Quietly REVIVED the Rockets
How The NBA’s Best Coach Quietly REVIVED the Houston Rockets as Gilbert Arenas & The Gil’s Arena Crew analyze the Houston Rockets’ resurgence from lottery team to top seed in the Western Conference and break down how Ime Udoka’s aggressiveness & passion changed the identity and culture in Houston. They discuss how Udoka deserves more love as a a Coach Of The Year candidate and preview how this young team led by Jalen Green, Alpren Sengun & Dillon Brooks will fare in the NBA Playoffs.
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I'm happy to see him succeeding in Houston after what transpired in Boston.
LeBron averaged 32 on udoka.
Coach of the year
I give them 2nd round exit. Not because of talent but because of lack of experience.
Couch of the year
Best? He is probably the best colored coach.
Best take by McCants on one these segments.
Spo is the best coach fault out. But Ime is good.
He turned the Celtics in a championship contender. He brought that tough grittiness to the team as a coach. Houston definitely came on up on one.
Coached his ass off!!!
I find it funny how the rockets and the pistons are improving thanks to the thompson twins and the young star rivals cade and jalen
LEXI IS FINE.. DAMN IT
Dam,I like her❤
I'm happy to see him succeeding in Houston after what transpired in Boston.
Last month you said in the playoffs Shai not getting those calls. But now you say when playoffs start Steph WILL be getting calls? So are the refs going to hold there whistles? Or call more fouls in the playoffs?
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Ime Ustrokher 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ime a tuff coach Celtic should of kept him and kept ot quiet 🤫🙊 be better then kerr
Def coach of the year
Go always has that little “regular season” bs when he talks about the rockets he hates to admit they might be them 😂
Don't see that team making pass second round this year but man its a special team. This is the year they learn playoff ball next year barring any injuries they gonna be a scary team in the playoffs.
Fortunately for the Coach, I’ve heard that the women in Houston are easy.
Coach of the year and the defensive player of the year
Ime and Amen
He needs to find out how to run offense. The reason why the Celtics ended up winning was figuring out the offensive piece. They were already decent on defense, the jump they took on offense with Mazzula helped a lot.
The NETS dropped the ball big time, they could have got Imeh when Celtics let him go and they had kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant then
Ime udoka have his players locked in helleva coach
Los Angeles Lukas? Really? what about the other 11 men who play the game of basketball? Takes more than one man to win it all. Even Thomas Edison had help. Jo is a clown for wearing that punk ass shit. Ion care what none you niggas say either.
Love what Detroit and Houston are doing. Physical teams with young stars and good coaching who we should talk about more.
Dat dam Sexi Lex.
Dat nicca coaching da Pistons deserves coach of da decade. How soon we forgot last year 😂
Breaking News Alert to Gil Arena and his crew of Naysayers and Serious Sane Listeners/Commenters. It is refreshing to hear someone Give The Houston Rockets their much-deserved respect, instead of hearing how their lack of experience will hinder their progress when the playoffs begin. This Myth was led by Colin Cowherd, who apparently influenced other media Naysayers to follow his opinion. In the meantime, what the Herd fails to tell these Naysayers Followers, is that he will be the first to jump on the Rockets' spaceship once they win the opening round of their playoff, regardless of their opponents. With that being said, what amazes me about the Rockets' lack of respect is that they earned the second seed position in the Western Conference. During the last month of the season, other teams in the Western Conference kept waiting for the Rockets to lose, to no avail. Just a Talkie Talk Thought, and Real Opinion on How Udoka hahasot his entire squad to buy into his leadership, because he doesn't take no mess.
Yay they can foul people. That’s not going to win against skill. Kmart should know that from experience
This is a good point! potentially could prove that Boston didn't need to hire their current coach because they should have kept the previous coach? 🤔 You mentioning this in your video had me thinking of that good point!
Not to mention Sam Cassell would have been a good candidate also which I believe he's the assistant coach.
Pray Giannis joins Udoka's team…Nigerian Nightmares…DYNASTY!!!
JJ Reddick COY
IME is great but you have to go with JJ
She’s not wrong on Dillion but he killed us in the playoffs two years in a row. But he did give an attitude and swag to the team but I think that only goes so far.
Hes technically coach of the year if we going by the book but the league dont like Udoka like that & gonna give it to Mark Dagnuet
Great coach, terrible husband and father
Kenyon wasn’t paying attention to what was going on in Memphis. They pretty much made it known that Dillon Brooks was done in Memphis right after that series ended.
Ime Udoka v the Warriors gonna be a movie…funny how nobody believed in Ime Udoka when he took the Cs to the finals lol
Funny how the fans complain about the league not being tough enough but constantly shun brooks and draymond and players like them that’s tough😂
Get rid of Martin please!!!
Kenyon he aint take the money, Memphis did exactly what she said.
Should be coach of the year and should have won it last year.